Abstract
Conflict between people and wildlife is a foremost issue for conservation which is hard to solve when the wants of people collide in a straight line with the needs of endangered species like wild elephant. This study was carried out in the adjoining villages of two protected areas (PAs) of Chittagong region namely Dudupukuria-Dhopachori Wildlife Sanctuary (DDWS) and Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) to identify the attitude of the villagers to the PAs by measuring different received benefits and faced problems from those reserves, the interaction between human and wild elephants and the opinions of the villagers to the effectiveness of community based wildlife management. The data were collected through a quantitative household survey which includes a series of close ended, fixed response and simple questions. Crop depredation was identified as a major problem to the villagers and they received small amount of benefits for the conservation program through protected area which create negative attitude among them to the PAs. Though most of the people were willing to participate in community based conservation program, they didnot think that such kind of approach is effective to protect biodiversity in the PAs. The present study makes the recommendation to build positive attitude to the PAs, to minimize the conflict, helps in future planning programs and further research of this field.
Highlights
Conflict between people and wildlife is a foremost issue for conservation which is hard to solve when the wants of people collide in a straight line with the needs of endangered species like wild elephant
Benefits of protected areas: We have considered four kinds of benefits in order to understand the perceptions of respondents towards the conservation of Dudupukuria-Dhopachori Wildlife Sanctuary (DDWS) and Chunati Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS)
The proportion of respondents received large amount of benefits from financial incentives and soft credit, training and information on wildlife and nature, and sound environment and tourism business were considerably higher in the villages near the CWS compared to those villages located around the DDWS, while the opposite scenario observed in CWS where very few respondents claimed that they perceived small amount of benefit from timber and firewood than those respondents inhabited around DDWS
Summary
PARK-PEOPLE CONFLICT IN BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY FROM CHUNATI WILDLIFE SANCTUARY AND DUDHPUKURIA-DHOPACHORI WILDLIFE SANCTUARY. 1. Research Officer, Bangladesh Forest Research Institute, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. 2. Associate Professor, Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Chittagong
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